Taking photographs of plants is a hobby decades in the making for me. Thousands of plant images every year.  And there is one thing that all...

The hedge row This fall, inspired by videos of people starting trees from seed I collected a bucket full of acorns from the "mighty...

I once read a gardening article about all the plants killed by "good" gardeners. It seems like a counter intuitive statement on th...

 “The findings of contemporary astrophysics suggest that we might do well to settle ourselves imaginatively into an endlessly transforming u...

I have grown Elecampane, Inula helenium , for years but never realized until this summer that Elecampane had a special relationship with ant...

  So a bit of a story. Probably about 10-12 years ago, I had collected some black walnuts in the fall. It wasn't tons...maybe a gallon o...

 This is a copy of a blog post I made on another, now defunct, blog in 2010. I am posting it here so as not to loose this wonderful info. A ...